The all-in-one HubSpot alternative — flat price, never per seat
Nanobox is an all-in-one suite — CRM, finance, HR, and support — at one flat price with unlimited users, never per seat. Run it in the cloud (we host it, from $29/mo) or self-host and own the source (from $399, one-time). HubSpot's free CRM is a brilliant on-ramp, and that's the point. It's designed to pull you up the Sales Hub ladder, where per-seat pricing and contact-tier upgrades live. If you mainly need a CRM and not a marketing growth engine, you can skip the climb entirely.
HubSpot vs. Spodus CRM
5-year cost
HubSpot: Free to start, but Sales Hub Professional and Enterprise are billed per seat monthly; costs climb with both seats and contact tiers
Spodus CRM: Flat $29/mo hosted, unlimited users, or $399 one-time to self-host a single domain ($1,999 agency). Never per seat, either way
Per-seat pricing
HubSpot: Paid seats billed per user per month; core seats add further cost as the team grows
Spodus CRM: No seats, ever, cloud or self-host. One flat price covers your whole team
Data ownership
HubSpot: Contacts live in HubSpot's cloud and feed the contact-tier pricing model
Spodus CRM: Cloud plan: your data on our infrastructure, exportable anytime, no contact tiers. Self-host: your own database, your own server
Source access
HubSpot: Closed SaaS; you extend through the API and HubSpot's app marketplace
Spodus CRM: Full source included when you self-host. Modify the product itself, not just its edges
AI markup
HubSpot: Breeze AI features layered across paid tiers
Spodus CRM: No AI features and no AI premium, by design
Hosting
HubSpot: Cloud only
Spodus CRM: Cloud (we run it, flat $29/mo) or self-host on your own infrastructure from $399 one-time
Lock-in
HubSpot: The free tier and contact data create real switching gravity over time
Spodus CRM: Cancel the cloud plan and export your data, or self-host and own the code and database outright
Marketing & inbound suite
HubSpot: Genuinely excellent: email, landing pages, automation, and analytics on one platform
Spodus CRM: Nanobox is an all-in-one suite too (CRM, finance, HR, and support), just not a marketing engine; pair it with dedicated email and marketing tools for campaigns
Why teams switch
- One flat price covers CRM, finance, HR, and support, with unlimited users and never a per-seat fee.
- The bill never grows with headcount or your contact list, in the cloud or on your own server.
- No AI tier and no edition ladder. The price you see is the real price.
- Prefer to own it outright? Self-host from $399 one-time and keep the source and data on infrastructure you control.
The free-tier trap
HubSpot's free CRM earned its reputation honestly. It's genuinely good, and getting started costs nothing. But "free" is the top of a funnel. The moment you want Sales Hub's automation, sequences, reporting depth, or a second paid seat, you're on a per-user monthly plan, and the bill grows two ways at once: more seats and more marketing contacts both push you into higher tiers. For a growing team that's the intended path, and over five years it adds up to a serious recurring line item.
Nanobox removes the funnel. It's an all-in-one suite — CRM, finance, HR, and support — at one flat price with unlimited users, never per seat. Run it in the cloud from $29/mo and we handle hosting, updates, and backups, or self-host it yourself: buy the software once ($399 for a single domain, $1,999 for the agency license), get the source, and run it with Docker. There are no paid seats, no contact tiers, and no AI add-on, because there are deliberately no AI features. Your contact list can grow to whatever your plan or your server handles, without your invoice moving.
Where HubSpot genuinely wins
Here's the honest part: if you're running serious inbound marketing, HubSpot is excellent and Nanobox is not trying to compete. HubSpot's all-in-one marketing suite (email, landing pages, workflows, analytics, and a polished app marketplace) is a real product advantage, and the onboarding is some of the best in software. Nanobox is an all-in-one suite for CRM, finance, HR, and support, not a marketing engine, and it expects you to bring your own email and marketing tools. So the choice is about what you actually need: a marketing platform with a CRM attached, or a flat-priced suite that runs your whole back office and never charges per seat, in the cloud or on your own server.
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- HubSpot's free CRM is real, but it's the entry point to paid Sales Hub seats, contact tiers, and add-ons that scale with you. Nanobox is $29/mo flat for the whole suite (CRM, finance, HR, and support), unlimited users, never per seat, or a one-time $399 license if you'd rather self-host and own it outright. Either way, the price doesn't climb with your team or your contact list.
- No, and this is HubSpot's genuine strength. HubSpot is an all-in-one marketing, sales, and service platform. Nanobox is an all-in-one suite too, just for a different job: CRM, finance, HR, and support at one flat price. If inbound marketing is the core of your business, HubSpot's integrated suite is hard to beat.
- Yes. Export your contacts, companies, and deals from HubSpot and import them into Nanobox, or use the API. Your data isn't trapped behind a contact-tier paywall, whether you run it on our cloud or your own server.
- Nothing changes on the bill. HubSpot prices partly by marketing contact tiers; Nanobox's flat $29/mo cloud plan (or self-hosted license) doesn't. In the cloud your only constraint is fair use; self-hosted, it's whatever your server handles.